Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 124, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 17, 1927 Page: 1 of 12
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VOL. 1.—NO. 124.
ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION, CITT OF BORGER, TEXAS
BORGER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1927.
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RANGERS ORDER STORES CLOSED SUNDAY
BORGER TO
BE SHUT UP
TIGHT TODAY
Should Observe Law Without
Warning, State Officers De-
clare; Threaten Arrests.
HAVE BEEN OPEN
Sunday Business Has Been the
Rule in Borger Since Estab-
lishment Year Ago.
jai «líorés "an<lr tíu8iness place lii
Eorgéf must be .closed Sunday, ac-
cording- to the statement of Rartger
Captain Tom Hicjrman yesterday fol-
lowing the decision oí the ranger
forces to ¿lone business establish-
ments in accordance with the state
laws.
"Every place of business will be
closed Sunday anil must remain
closed to (he public every Sunday
In the^ttture," the ranger captain
aKHertfTOvWBtuVh niñees should be
closed witíioijt. uüggeoUon as their
opening on Sunday is a violation to
the arawMwiiday laws."
Proprietors opening their stores
Sunday morning will be subject to
arrest and. line, according; to the-
laws of Texas.
Business places have been open fin
Sunday in Borger. ever since the city
wa sestabliahed over a year ago, and
have continued to operate on the
Sabbath since the coming of state
officers here.
It is believed all merchants will
be willing to co-ojiérate with rángers
In observing Sunday and closing in
accordance with the order.
BASEBALL DOPE!
Baseball box scores Hill he
found on I he sports page of this
Issue, of the Herald, as well
as stories of Local sports, writ-
tcn by Vic Wagner, and Asso-
ciated I'ress Reports on sports
generally. Sport news, wire and
local, will 1m- carried evei-y day
on (lie sports page of The Her-
ald.
MEXICANS
KILL GERMAN
MKXICO CITY, April !«.—
(AP)—the killing of León Slio-
j • wcltziT, said to be a German
. citizen, it) reported hy a dispatch
to . "Kxcolsior" from ('ordo-
ba.
SEVEN IEATHS
FROM FLOOD ON
MISSISSIPPI
— i . •
Mighty River Finds New Weak
PJaces to Break Through
Into Valley.
MEMPHIS. Tenn., April It',.—
(AIM-1 The mighty Mississippi, test-
Ins the strength of levees through-
out its more than 1,2(10 miles from
Cairo, Illinois, (o the sea, found
additional weak spots today, de-
spite the combined efforts of thou-
sands of infill and mules.
SEVEN MORE OKA I)
Here and there the sweeping wa-
ters claimed additional lives and
tonight the death toll stood at el-
even for the week. Seven deaths
were reported today. Thurman Bur-
ris, 17, was drowned at Atkins,
Ark., while trying to rescue his
father and mother; a baby fell in-
to the water at Paragould, Ark.,
and died; Ray Rogers, 12. was
drowned ip Illinois; a negrd wo-
man and her new-born baby died
in a refuge wagon enroute to-
Hickman, Ky., and two negroes
were drowned at Dardanelle, Ark.,
four persons had lost their lives
earlier in the week.
To the thousands of acres of land
already flooded were atlded a great-
er and heretofore untouched terri-
tory today by breaking levees at
Doreno, Mo.; in Faulkner county a
big lake in northeastern Arkansas
and at Whitehall Landing, Ark.,
at the St. Francis river.
STRENGTHEN LEVEES
ST. LOUIS, April 10.— (AP) —
Thousands of wet and weary men
(Continued on Page Two)
on OSIERS
DESTRUCTION
OF NUjSMCES
Unsanitary Outhouses Must be
Destroyed, Officials Tell
Residents.
FINES TO FOLLOW
SOUGHT 12 YEARS
Preliminary Move Is Made
Toward Clean-up Which
Starts Monday.
Preliminary to the intensive clean-
up ansJ sanitation campaign which
starts , in Borger Monday morning.
City Health officers were yesterday
■serving notice on "residents that un-
sanitary outhouses must be torn
down immediately and replaced by
houses built in acordance with sug-
gestions from the state health of-
ficer. Fines may follow fdilure to do
as ordered, the officials said.
DRIVE STARTS MONDAY
Bright and early Monday, at 8 a.
ni-, thirty two squads of men will go
out from the corner of Main and
Fourth Etreets, armed with rakes,
shovels, and other tools, to clean up
the alleys and streets of the city, as
the first move of the drive instituted
by the chamber of commerce and
backed by the city administration
tc make Borger a healthier place to
live in. Citizens are asked to report
for duty with the clean-up squads.
SEWER PLAN DELAYED
No report has yet been had on
the sewer estimates ordered from the
city engineer by the city commis-
sion when that body was petitioned
by the chamber of- commerce com-
mitter last Tuesday to take some im-
mediate action townrds building a
sewer line up the alleys on each side
of Main Street. The commission was
asked to issue warrants which the
committee would under take to sell
to citizens, to finance immediate com
struction of the sewer • lines, which
experts said could be built and con-
nected in forty days. A mass meet-
ing will be called when the estimates
are obtained and the warrants is-
sued. but this matter is now at a
complete standstill, waiting action
by the city adminisraion-
For 21 years Will Watterson was
iiVnted tor murder at Tishomingo,
Okla. He was believed dead until
a few days ago. when it was
learned he was a prisoner in a Ne-
vada penitentiary. Gov. Johnston
ot Oklahoma has requested his
- extradition.
FOUR
SIX
COPS AND
SHERIFF'S
DEPUTIES QUIT
FORTY-NINE
NOW REM OF
TEXAS STORM
John McKinney Latest to Die
Of Those Hurt At Rock
Springs.
OIL CITY TRAGEDY BRINGS
OLR FRIENDS TOGETHER AGAIN
Johnson- Workman -and C. H.
Sparks, noiv well advanced In yeais.
were boyhood friends together in a
small town,up In Kansas. And many
milestones have been upturned since
the two meh laM were together.
Today Workman and Sparks have
been re-unlted, .but the reunion
bears a deep significance and one
I hat will linger In each others- mem-
ories uñti lthe'end of time.
For both men have come to Bor-
ger to claim the bodies of their Hons,
both youths friends and companions
like their frit hers, and who met death
in the olt.ro explosion at an oil well
near Oil City several days ago.
HOJM WERE FIÜtENt>S
Roy Sparks, 19, and Fred Work-
man, 24,canie!td Borger At almost
the same time early last May. find-
ing employment In the oil . fields.
Learning a short time after theli
arrival that their fathers were boy-
BYRD HURT AS
PLANE FALLS
HACKENSACK, N. J., April
16.— (AP) —The monoplane
America in which Lieutenant
Commander Richard E. Bjrd
planned a dash to Paris in com-
IM'tition for Orteig prize turned
over tills afternoon at Hiubrook
Heights after an hour's test
flight and Injured Anthony Eek*
ker. Floyd Bennett, Lieutenant
Commander Byrd and George
Noville, a mechanic of New
York.
Of the four, Bennett was the
most seriously injured. He suff-
ered a fractured thigh, a frac"
tured rib and a fractured left
shoulder .Mentenant. Command-
er Byl-d suffered a fractured
left wrist.
AUSTIN, April 16.—(AP)—Dr.
W. M. W. Splawn, University of
Texas president, appointed today
as one of the federal rail wage
arbitrators, was one of the Texas
railroad commissioners In 1923 and
1924.
TULIA, April 16.—D. T Fowler,
oil driller of Odessa. Texas, died as
a result of an automobile acldent
Tuesday afternoon about 5:00
o'clock about 12 miles north of Tulia
on the Amarillo Highway, in which
the car was overturned while pass-
ing a- truck. • •
SAN ANTONIO. April 16.—(AP)
- John McKinney. 38, died in a lo-
ad hospital today, the forty-ninth
falality in the Rock Springs torna-
do and the tenth to die in San An-
ouio hospitals or enroute to them.
McKinney was badly mangled in
the storm and suffered internal in-
juries as well as a number of ser-
ious cuts and bruises-
Rock Springs will collect only
520,000 in tornado insurance to
cover damages of Tuesday's twister
which claimed 49 lives and did dam-
age estimated at $1,218,500. The
estimate was made today after a sur-
vey by business men and city offi-
cials there, assisted by American Red
Cross representatives.
DAMAGE IS PERSONAL
Most of the damage was to per-
sonal property, the committee found,
the damage to public buildings
amounting to only $146,000. Most
of this damage was suffered by the
public school and courthouse. The
public buildings were the only ones
that carried any tornado insurance
and this amount to only $20,000
Contributions trickled in slowl>
today, several thousand dollars hav-
ing reached the committee. The Red
Cross has announced that the town
will be rehabilitated until every ci-
tizen is again self-supporting. A
drive for $200,000 for this purpose
is now in progress and Red Cross
workers are making a careful survey
to determine the economic condition
of every survivor.
Developments in the shifting per-
sonnel of Borger officialdom yes-
terday included the resignation of
ten more officers and the appoint-
ment of two to fill the places of
men previously resigned.
Charles G. Purcell, formerly sher-
iff of Deaf Smith county, was sworn
in as chief of police to succeed
Fred Williams, resigned; Glenn
Pace was named to take the place
of I. Fleig, resigned, as city com-
missioner; and four policemen and
six deputy sheriffs left their re-
spective positions.
Purcell Made Chief
Charles C. Purcell. well-known
Texas peace officer, was appointed
chief of police of the city of Bor-
ger Saturday afternoon by Mayor
Miller and city commissioners who
followed the suggestions of state
officers and rangers.
Purcell succeeds Fred Williams,
who resigned his position as police
chief a week ago after serving in
that capacity since the organization
of the department last fall.
Chief Purcell began his duties as
head of the police department last
evening. The new executive has
served as sheriff at Hereford,
Texas, for the past eight years and
has been a peace officer in the
state for fourteen years. His ap-
pointment was madf through the
recommendation of Governor
Moody and Ranger Captains Tom
Hickman and Frank Hamer.
While here the past week, prior
to his appointment, Chief Purcell
has been acting as an aid to rang-
ers.
Deputies Suspended
Every deputy except two were
indefinitely suspended from the
sheriff's force following a visit of
Rangers and state officials to Stin-
nett Saturday, morning.
Sheriff Joe Ownhey, it is said,
will appear before the grand jury
Monday. In a public statement to
the Hutchinson County Herald last
week, the sheriff asserted he would
resign "under no circumstances."
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ROAD BONDS
FAIL BY 23
VOTES ONLY
Borger Votes 233 to 3 For
$1,250,000 Issue To
Pave Highways.
TOTAL, 307 TO 189
Smaller Communities Poll
Heavy Tally Against
Bonds.
With Spring Creek still to
hear from nt 10 p. m. Saturday,
the $1,250,000 road bond issue
for this county was short —I
votes of the necessary tv i,--i 'rds
majority, according * > <" nty
officials at Stinnett. lt'< los .vas
conceded- The total com.' (ood
at :i07 for and 18! ..¿.linst.
Borger voted overwhelmingly
for the iksue, 2.1:1 for and 3
against.
Stinnett voted 2." for and 20
against the issue. The loss of
the issue was due to overwhelm-
ing unfavorable votes in the
small communities, Sjiearaian
voting seven for and 00 against,
Holt eleven for and 45 against
and other boxes In proportion.
hood friends, a close companionship
was welded between the two youths
Time .went. on. and Roy and Fred
lu gan to look ahead to the day they
were to gather op their savings since
working in Borger, and sot out for
Kansas where they might once again
visit their homes.
STILL NEAR AT HEART
In the meantime, C. II. Sparks,
father to Roy Sparks, has been liv-
ing at Lincoln, Kan., while Johnson
Workman settled down to, live at
Russell. Kan- Neither knew where
the other had gone, although the
boyhood compaionship was still near
to their hearts.
Then came a message from Bor-
ger to each of the elderly gentlo-
men, announcing the sudden death
by accident of their sons. And the
two men departed at once for Bor-
ger to claim the hodleB ot their dead
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Borger pastors yesterday predicted
that churches here would be crowded
lor Easter morning services.
Started with sunrise prayer ser-
■'Christ's Mission" at the evening
services. Easter music and readings
will also be a part of the morning
program.
The First Methodist church an-
nounces a special dedication day
service at the Sunday school hour,
at which time children will be given
an opportunity to unite with the
church: and at the regular preach-
ing hour Rev. Orion W. Carter will
hpeak on "The Ressurrection," to
follow this with a sermon on
Mission" at the evening services.
Easter music and readings will also
be a part of the morning program.
The Christian church, following
Sunday school at 10 a. m., will, at
the regular preaching hour. 11 a-
m., have special music including a
processional, "Holy, Holy," and the
hymns "Christ is Risen"; "Hall,
Mighty Victor", and "Footprints of
Jesus". Ths sermon subject will be
"Christ Arose". The prayer will be
"Rejoice, Bod Down fhlne Head".
At noon an Easter egg hunt and
luncheon will be held, and at the
evening services a sacred Easter con-
cert, according to Rev. I. E. Adams,
the pastor.
The First Baptist church will also
CHINESE FIRE
OH II. S. SHIPS
SHANGHAI. April 10. (AP)
Both British and American war-
ships have been made targets
for Chinese guns. The I'nited
States destroyers Preble and
John 1). Ford have been subject-
ed to machine gun tire on the
Ysngt.se river, while the Bri-
tish gunboat Woodcock came
under attack from the Canto-
nese troops entrenched on the
low ChinkiaiiR. All (bree boats
south bank of the Yangtse be-
replied with such vigor tluit the
( hiñese fusillade ceased in short
order.
EIGHT DIE IH CHICAGO BLAST:
EASTER BATH SAVES ONE LIFE
nave special Easter music and ser
vices, the pastor, Rev. Rolfe Barnard,
says.
Rev. C. II. Johnson of Eastland
who is conducting revival services
at the old Baptist, church for the
Church of Ood, announces bas-
ket dinner and an Easter egg hunt
after the regular morning services.
The Assembly of God revival in
Phillips will be at the usual hour,
7:45 p. m., conducted by Mrs. Ethel
Music.
The Phillips Sunday school has
announced an Easter program for
tonight at the public school.
Other churches have not announc
ed-their plans for the day.
CHICAGO. April 16.—(AP) —
Desire for a bath in a tub. before
Easter and a rain that followed
saved the life today of 15-vear-
old Anna Zokolsky whose family
was snuffed out. by an explosion
that took the lives of eight persons
sobs, "and I went to a friend's
house to get ready for Easter.
When I ¡?ot ready to go home. It.
was raining, so mother gave me
permission to stay for the night."
Four hours later Anna's parents.
The blast wrecked u row o. smali her sister, and her brother, were
stores and dwellings on the west
side and fire completed the de-
struction. A gas pocket, a liquor
still, a quantity of cleaninir fluid,
in a tailor shop, and a bomb were
blamed for the explosion, but auth-
orities were still at sea as to the
cause, after a day of investigation.
The eight persons killed were
members of two families, that of
Leonard Levin, a tailor, and Abra-
ham Sokolsky, a drygoods merch-
ant. Both families lived above their
shops.
"We had no tub In the house
Anna told a coroner's jury, between
dead.
Levin's wife, Rose, and their two
sons, Albert. 2c. and Leonard, Jr.,
14. were killed with him.
Joseph Romano, owner of a fish
store in the building, was the only
other survivor. He was seen run-
ning from the falling structure, his
face covered with blood.
In hurried Italian he explained,
"1 don't know what happened."
Both Romano and Andrew Card*
inelli, said to have been an em-
ploye In a grocery store in the row
ot buildings, wore taken into cus-
tody and brought to the Inquest.
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Caufield, T. E. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 124, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 17, 1927, newspaper, April 17, 1927; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth167057/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.